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Queen's Channel had been unsuccessful ; and as all his 

 news had been anticipated by Commander Richards, and 

 both were weary (I had not slept for I will not say how 

 many hours, and the ship was fast to the floe), we parted 

 to rest. 



Here we are all, thank God, safe, and in good health ! 

 Our advance too, even thus far, is matter to be thankful 

 for, and in these regions almost another achievement. 



The tedium of detention I shall pass over ; we gained 

 by it a longer sight of Barrow Bay and Johnny Barrow 

 Mount than was interesting, and on the 17th we for- 

 tunately got inside the movable pack, and made fast to 

 the solid land floe, with one anchor down, at eight P.M. 

 The ice here was very heavy, and aground in seven fa- 

 thoms, consisting of massive piled hummocks up to the 

 shore. To be caught here undocked would be danger- 

 ous : still, there was barely depth to do this with safety, 

 and a heavy stony gravel lay beneath. Ascending the 

 high shoulder of this mountain, which 1 named Acland, 

 after that esteemed baronet, Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 

 I found that it coincided exactly with an object which I 

 had taken from Mount Percy, with the idea of making it 

 a station, and from which it could be seen through a gap 

 in the island intervening. It commands the north en- 

 1 ranee to Sir Robert Inglis Bay, Capes Becher and Ma- 

 jendie, Dundas Island, and all round to Barrow Island and 

 Long Island extreme. A very conspicuous cairn was here 

 erected out of large masses of magnesian limestone, not 

 likely to be affected by weather or time. Our dock was 

 cut into four fathoms. From this height I discovered, 

 about five miles off' shore, what I suspected was an island, 



